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iS6
ephefiana,Chap.i,
V
ER.ao.
F2.
Doil.q.
yfe.
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4braham
faid.
Thus though
he let his owne Sonne dye, yethe
favemh
him
in
due
feafon, and delivereth him
:
There
is
a double
falvation,one
proteeting and keeping
evill
that
it
(hall
not
come
neare
us,
nor once
feize on
us
;
the other
is a
keeping
of
us
fo
as
it
(hall
not
hold
us,
much
leffe
prevaile
over
us
:
Thus God
Paved
his
Chrift,
accordingly
as
he
asked,
when
he
prayed with
f
rongcries
to
him
that
met
able to
fave
himfremdeath,Heb.5.9.
Wherefore
let this our Saviours cafe
comfort
us
in
greateft evils.
If
the example
offeb
is
to be lookedat,how much morethis
ftandard of
ex-
amples
?What
though thou
feeme(t never
fo
forfakencwhat though
ma-,
ny
evils have feized
on
thee
a
feare
not,
(land (till, falvation will
thine
forth
in due
feafon.
God
is
not
like
the
devil! and wicked
ones,
when
they
have
brought
one
into
the bryers, therethey
leave
him, on
plaine
field
:
I
have finned
in
betraying innocent
blood
:
What
is
that
re
ra,
fay
they
a
but
God
will be with
us
in the
evils,
yea
in
feaven,
to
fave
and
deliver ur.
Obferve againe,
that
God doth not onely
raffe
him up,
but
fet him
at
his
right
hand ;
Glory correfpondent to
his humiliation. Obferve
that
God
cloth make
the
abatements
of
his
children
be the
forerunners
oftheirgreateft glory;as
the
pride
of
wickedones
doth
lackyas
it were,
and
runne by
their
enfuing ruine
:
fo on
the contrary
,
the
fufferings
and humiliations
of
Gods
children have enfuing anfwerabie glory
:
Hee was
made
idle
then
a
worme,
and here
is
taken
to the right
hand
above Angels.
It
pleafeth
God not onely to
exalt
his
humbled
chil-
dren,
bat
ruche degree
alto,
in
which
he had abated
them,
according
to
that
prayer
of
cítitef
s
Pfal.
go.
Comfort
us,
according to the
rarer
wherein
we
have
fufered affittion
:
as
on the contrary,
we tee him bring
-
ing
judgement
on
the wicked,
in
the
fame meafure
in
which they
have
taken
in
the delights
of
finne,
Revel. r
8.7. True
it is,
that
this doth not
hold
univerfally in
this
prefent life, but
when the
definitive fentence
is
now
tobe
given
themaccording,
to
workes,
(hall
every foule
receive
proportioned
recompence.
Let
us
then by
this take
comfort
in
of
iétions:
Was
this Chrifts
cafe,
onely
a
Nay,
fee, lames
a.
Io.
Rejoyce
in
affiûions, for
when yen are
tryed,
you
Jhall
receive
the crowne
of vittorie; The
wickeds woe
is
fowne
in
their rejoycing, but in our
darkeneife
light
is
fowne for the
righteous.' Let
us
thinke God doth but proveus, that
he may
in his due
timedoe
us
good
:
Blood
and
fweate goe before
vi&tory,
and before
the earthly harveft
is
gotten
in
:
Wee
muft
not then thinke
it
ftrange,
if
God
caufe us
toknow
fulferings,
before he
Phew
us
thofe
glorious
mer-
cies
which he hath prepared for
tts.
But
to confider this matter
of
Chrifts
exaltation more particularly:
Firfi, when
it
is Paid,
he
is
fetat Gods
right hand, above
principalities;
Obferve,
that
our Saviour
Chrift
as
man,
is
taken
to
have prerogative
before every
other
creature
:
For firft,
this phrafe
noteth the
preemi-
nence
of
him,
as
next
to God
himfelfe
;
that looke
as
one
made
a
King, bath
a
dignitie above all perlons named in
his
kingdome,
Dukes,
Earles,